Author's note: This one sparked joy. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling owns the canon, world, and characters portrayed below and you can tell I'm not J.K. Rowling because #transrights

Hogwarts: Assignment #1, Forestry Task #3 Write about someone showing their support to another person(s).

Content Warnings: NA

A Big Deal

"If you're going to have your feet on my lap, stop being so jittery," Remus said after the third time that she kicked the book in his hands.

"How else am I supposed to get your attention?" Dora asked with a grin. The magazine she was pretending to read was upside down. Subtle.

"You're not," Remus said. "Not when I'm in the middle of a very exciting chapter."

"What are you reading anyways?" she asked, craning her neck to spy the cover of the book. "What exactly counts as an exciting chapter in A Century of Changes in the Theoretical Study of Charms? Aren't you supposed to be on summer vacation?" she asked.

"Yes, and that's why I'm trying to relax with—"

Dora nudged his book with her foot again and he pushed her feet off his lap, and then she laughed and swung them back up.

"Alright—" Remus said, putting his book down to push her legs off again and grinning despite himself.

"Mum? Dad?"

He froze and turned to see Teddy standing in the doorway to the living room, the lamps they were (meant to be) reading by casting a long shadow behind him. He was wearing his favourite sweater and a pair of pajama pants that he'd outgrown at some point during the school year, since he was fourteen and growing like a weed. He was babysitting the Potter kids four days a week this summer, and last Thursday Lily Luna had painted his toenails magenta.

"Hey sweetheart," Dora said.

"I need to talk to you two," Teddy said, hands clasped in front of him nervously. His hair stood in its usual turquoise curls, but the anxiety rippling off of him was the unusual part.

"Okay," Remus said. He nudged Dora's legs off of him for good this time and straightened up. "What about, Teddy?"

Teddy opened his mouth and took a deep breath again, swallowing hard.

"Teddy?" Dora asked carefully. "Is everything okay?"

"I… I think… I don't know," Teddy said, hands twisting together. "But I think I have to tell you that… I think…"

"Hey," Remus said when he realized how Teddy was losing track of the plot, one sentence fragment at a time. "Teddy, whatever it is, we love you."

"I'm pansexual," he blurted out.

"Oh," Dora said. "Okay, sweetheart. Was that… that was what you wanted to talk to us about?"

Teddy opened his mouth and then closed it again, looking back and forth between the two of them.

"Yeah," he said. "I thought it might… it might be a big deal."

"Well, it is," Dora said. "For you. For us, it just means we know you a little better now. Is that okay?"

Teddy hesitated and looked at the two of them again.

"Yes," he said. "You two are really okay about... it?"

"Of course," Remus said.

"Oh," Teddy said. "I mean, I know we have queer people all over the family—there's Uncle Sirius and Kingsley, and Al, and that spinster Tonks cousin is definitely a lesbian… but you know, sometimes people are different when it's their kids. So I just had this voice in the back of my head being all paranoid…"

"I know what you mean," Remus said. He and Teddy might be thinking of the same handful of Hogwarts students this had happened to, after all. "But Teddy, I'm still really sorry that you were not completely and entirely sure that it would be okay."

"It's okay," Teddy said.

Remus thought that it wasn't, not really, but he didn't want to press the point. He got up and opened his arms and Teddy had one of those rare and beautiful moments where all the teenagerhood melted off of him and he became a little boy again. He buried himself in Remus's arms and Remus didn't like the realization that his son had grown so much that Remus needed to tilt his chin up to rest it on top of his son's head. Still, he held onto Teddy tight and Dora joined their huddle soon enough.

"Are you okay, baby?" Dora asked, pushing a curl behind his ear.

"Yeah," Teddy said. "Yeah, it's just… it feels more real every time I tell someone, you know? And that makes it… I don't know, kind of scary.."

"I get that," Dora said softly. "But your dad's right. We love you. This doesn't change anything, except for the kind of resources and things we know you might need from us. We won't tell anybody else until you want us to, alright?"

"Thanks," Teddy said, relieved. "Even, like, Grandma?"

"Even Grandma," Dora said. "This is yours, okay? Is there anything else you wanted to say, or that you wanted us to say?"

Teddy swallowed hard and shook his head.

"I love you guys too," Teddy said. He cleared his throat and gently pulled away. "I'm… I'm going to go read, alright?"

"Alright," Dora said, fluffing his hair again. "Sweet dreams, baby."

Teddy nodded and offered both of them a smile before retreating back to his room, standing a little taller. Once they heard his bedroom door shut, Dora drifted towards Remus and wrapped her arms around his waist.

"We forgot to tell our son we were bisexual, didn't we?" she said.

"Yes," he said. "Yes we did."

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